Thomas Huxley

"It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions."

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Source: Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley

Biologist, Anthropologist

Thomas Huxley was a prominent English biologist known for his defense of Darwin's theory of evolution and his contributions to scientific thought.

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